The Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (National Professional Basketball league) (LNBP) is the top professional basketball league in Mexico. The league was founded in 2000 with 11 teams, and has 16 teams as of 2014. Despite its short history, in contrast with other national leagues, the LNBP has established itself as the most important basketball league in Latin America.

On 11 March 2000 was set in the city of Durango, a company focused on support and professional basketball in Mexico. The National Professional Basketball League, an association with the aim of bringing the best of basketball across the country and produce true professional basketball.

After the 2010-11 Championship, the Toros de Nuevo Laredo was crowned LNBP Champion finally stopping the Halcones 3-championship-streak. They won the Final Series against the Pioneros de Quintana Roo 4 games-to 2. The next year in 2012, the Pioneros were crowned Champions of the FIBA Americas League, being the first Mexican to do so, thus accomplishing a great feat in Mexican basketball history. That year's Champions were the Halcones Rojos de Veracruz. The Nuevo Laredan team repeated the Championship in the 2012-13 season.

The regular season is played in Round-Robin format in which the 12 best-placed teams qualify to the postseason. For every game won 2 points are added and for every game lost one point is added. For example: If team one played 10 games and won 7, losing the remaining 3, it would have 17 points; 14 points for the 7 games won and 3 points for the games lost.

The 4 top-seeded teams have a bye in the first playoff series while the five to twelve seeds play each other. The 5th-placed team plays the 12th-place team while the 6th plays the 11th and the 7th plays the 10th and so on. The quarter-finals see the top seed playing the worse-qualified seed and the second best team playing the second worse team and so on. The semi-finals are played like the quarterfinals while the Serie Final is played by the two teams remaining with the best-placed team having Home field advantage.